1. Bahman Maghsoudlou served as director for the latter two of these films, as he has for all but one of the films in the series.
10 Facts About Bahman Maghsoudlou
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Bahman Maghsoudlou had long wished to update his earlier film on his friend and the inspiration came after two occurrences in 2008: a long overdue retrospective of Mohasses's work at the Asia Society in New York City and the artist's untimely passing.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou has served as a jury member for several prestigious international film festivals.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou had the honor of being the lone non-Spanish member of the jury for the 3rd Edition of the Ibn Arabi International Film Festival, serving alongside a group of notables of the Spanish film scene, including Alberto Elena.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou is the recipient of Iran's Forough Farrokhzad literary award for writing and editing a series of books about cinema and theater, including Iranian Cinema.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou has presented this award at the fourth Forough Farrokhzad awards ceremony, held at the Central Palace for Young Adults in February 1975.
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In 2009, Maghsoudlou published Grass: Untold Stories, a book detailing the lives and adventures of three unique Americans, Merian C Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison, a journalist for the Baltimore Sun.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou's book was published by Mazda Press and featured a foreword by renowned film historian Kevin Brownlow.
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In 2020, Bahman Maghsoudlou released When the Moon Was Not Behind the Clouds, a collection of interviews with an assortment of Iranian women from across many artistic disciplines, including Iran Darroudi, Mansooreh Hosseini, Simin Behbahani, Mina Assadi, Shahla Riahi, Mahin Oskouei, Fakhri Khorvash and Khatereh Parvaneh.
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Bahman Maghsoudlou became a member of the prestigious list of PEN American Center in 2011.